NewFilmmakers NY Presents Documentary Series Featuring THE CARETAKER Tonight

Tonight, January 22nd, New Filmmakers presents a Documentary Series with the Third World Newsreel, a Special Program curated by Tova Beck-Friedman, and the feature THE CARETAKER.

6:00 PM Documentary Series
Activism and Film in NYC's Chinatown

Third World Newsreel (TWN) and New Filmmakers are proud to present two independent documentaries about social justice activism in New York City's Chinatown.

Third World Newsreel (TWN) is a media arts organization dedicated to fostering the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent social issue media made by and about people of color. TWN also has a variety of workshops and classes throughout the year on film and video production. TWN is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts and Materials for the Arts, as well as individual donors. Visit www.twn.org.

FROM SPIKES TO SPINDLES by Christine Choy (1976, 50 min) Christine Choy's From Spikes to Spindles is a classic documentary film about New York City's Chinatown in the seventies. This raw, gutsy portrait captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join forces to protest police brutality and hostile real estate developers. With bold strokes, it paints an overview of the community and its history, from the early laborers driving spikes into the transcontinental railroad to the garment workers of today.

HERE TO STAY by ManSee Kong (2008, 7 min)
ManSee Kong's Here to Stay illustrates the effects of gentrification in Manhattan's Chinatown as an elderly man and fellow tenants in an endangered single-room occupancy building await the results of an anti-eviction lawsuit. A TWN Workshop production and part of The Call for Change Series.

7:00 PM Special Program curated by Tova Beck-Friedman

MEMORIES, DREAM & SHADOWS, FOUR STORIES,
Jim Davis 20:00
Four personal stories of transcendence, fear, desire and wonder.

BARE LIFE, BARE LIFE, Jennifer Hsu, 15:53
Iraqi and Palestinian refugees living in Damascus, Syria coping with trauma, uncertainty and vulnerability.

EL SON?ADOR, Javier Roberto Carlos, 11:00
An intimate portrait of a dreamer, Marcos "El Son?ador" Alvarez, a blind street musician from El Salvador living in San Francisco.

KUNA NI NANANG (MY MOTHER SAID), Jessica Sison, 05:00 Ninety-nine year old, Elena Bautista tells her life story.

THE ASSUMPTION, Navid Sinaki, 06:00 min
Alternative diaries, portraits of the filmmaker as an Iranian gay artist living in the U.S.

9:00 PM Feature Presentation

Philip Cappello THE CARETAKER (2013, 75 minutes)

The Caretaker is a straightforward horror movie about six friends, a dog and a very bad man. The main character, Sam, has recently inherited his parents' old farmhouse in Vermont. Sam's dog is sick and has to be put down. Sam meets up with a group of friends at their ten- year High School reunion, and everybody decides they are going to go to Vermont with Sam and the dog for one last party weekend. Before the friends can fathom the horror that awaits them, the bartender at the reunion tries to warn them: Never let another man shoot your dog.

NewFilmmakers screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. NewFilmmakers LA screens at the AT&T Center, 1139 S Hill Street, and has become a leading showcase for new films in Hollywood. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online. New York Admission is $6 for the whole evening and tickets are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.